SysPrac26 Speakers and Talks

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The line-up for the SysPrac26 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference is now under development – more speakers and workshop co-ordinators will be added when they are confirmed.

Confirmed presentations (A–Z by first presenter)
 
  • Benjamin Wood & JJ van de Vyver - Closing the Loop: The Participatory and Cybernetic Founding of SCiO USA
  • Bridie Collins - Ecosystem in a Local Government Setting
  • Carola Ritzinger-Roll - From viability to measurability – Designing governance structures in highly complex and regulated organisational contexts
  • Christine McNeal - Applying Soft Systems Methodology to Review Adult Skills Funding: Lessons from a First-Time Practitioner
  • Dave Hall - What happens when a Governance Review becomes an inquiry into how an institution learns, decides, adapts and legitimises itself? Sub-title: Applying Systems Thinking in Practice to the Governance Review of a UK Chartered University 
  • Denis Fischbacher-Smith - How did it come to this? 
  • Dr Lesley Rowan - VSM - starting with a blank piece of paper
  • Edward Hilton - From a Search for Intrinsic Value to Persistent Systems: The Deductive Development of TEQR
  • Esmee Wilcox - How might understanding tempo help systemic action in government-community interactions?
  • Gavin Roberts - Practice in the real world
  • Gordon Niven - Variety Calculus: Cybernetic Methodology
  • Helena Elisabeth Gallbo - Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies
  • Ivo Velitchkov - The Second Law of Technodynamics
  • Jan De Visch - Beyond Sustainability
  • Janne J. Korhonen - What Happens When Nothing Happens? A Metabolic Perspective on Organizational Change
  • Jon Elphick - Mind the Gap…. in Weltanschauung needs to be NOT 2nd afternoon
  • Kai-Uwe Radde - Internalized Liabilities (obvious but invisible)
  • Kim Warren - Implementing the Self-Managing Enterprise with Agentic AI
  • Mark Workman - Foresight Transitions
  • Max Shen - Reducing Complexity or Relocating It? Applying VSM to NHS England’s Transition into DHSC
  • Melissa Dawson - Adapting How We Practice in a Constantly Changing Working Environment
  • Meriel Davies - Exploring Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management
  • Mike Bourne - Governance of Complex Projects
  • Olivia Horgan - Designing for the Conditions of Perception: What Embodied Experience Reveals About Systems Practice Under Pressure
  • Patrick Hoverstadt, Ed Straw - AI + Systems Thinking = ???
  • Roelien Goede - Reporting of a CSH Project
  • Sacha Girling - Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Rich Pictures: Following the Situation Rather than the Method
  • Simon Gough - Network Analysis and Boundary Critique
  • Simon MacCormac and John Rogers  - Getting into the Mess
  • Steve Whitla - Systems, purpose and the pursuit of shared meaning
  • Timo J. Hämäläinen - Ten complexity governance principles
  • Virginia de La Hamayde  - Editing the system, not the document: applying systems thinking to annual report production in large public organisations 
  • Virginia de La Hamayde  - Apprentices without masters: Building systems thinking practice capability through collective inquiry in NHS England

Workshops

  • Martin Günther - From Complexity Theory to Interaction Design: Designing for Emergence with Liberating Structures
  • Tony Korycki - De-misting Critical Systems Heuristics 
  • Xavier Matieni - From Systems Thinking to Systems Judgement: Exploring a Neglected Capability in Management Practice